Based on the award-winning educational apps, the StoryBots are curious little creatures who live in the world beneath our screens and go on fun adventures to help answer kids’ questions. Five curious little creatures track down the answers to kids’ biggest questions, like how night happens or why we need to brush our teeth.
Richard Gere stars as media mogul Max, a US-born man who finds himself at the heart of British politics, and able to wield considerable power as the owner of various television stations and newspapers. Max’s aristocratic ex-wife Kathryn works at a homeless shelter having been exiled from the family, while their struggling son Caden begins to crack under pressure as an editor for one of his father’s newspapers. Catastrophic events force the family back together, and they begin to work through their issues.
Kat and Bianca Stratford may be sisters, but all comparisons end there. Kat is an outspoken, independent feminist, while Bianca is a social butterfly who wants nothing more to be popular, even if it means bowing to the whims of people like the demanding, Chastity Church. The series highlights the Stratford sisters as they experience the highs and lows of high schools, deal with their overprotective father and find love. In Bianca’s case this is her friend Cameron who has a huge crush on her, while Kat finds herself in an interesting relationship with school bad boy Patrick Verona.
Dom Toretto and his family are targeted by the vengeful son of drug kingpin Hernan Reyes.
One year on from the notorious “Jack The Ripper” murders, the killings have stopped, but the identity of the killer remains a mystery. Down-at-heel newspaper reporter Sebastian Stubb has moved on to reporting on other scandals, but when a new “Ripper” letter appears on his desk and the killings start again, he unwittingly finds himself at the center of a new mystery. Has the “Ripper” returned, or is it a copycat killer? Or something else entirely?
A nightmarish view of a hospital of the future… a world that avoids over-population by eliminating sexual pleasure… a horrifying experiment in the effects of maximum population density…a vast university rigidly controlled by robots…an exploration of the possibilities of love between human and alien…the unanticipated drawbacks of the “planned city” of the future…the replacement of an entire human body destroyed in an accident …a devastating glimpse of California “after the Flood”…
What a tantalizing treat for young minds! Seven different thinking skills—relationships, analogies, sequences, deduction, inference, pattern decoding, and critical analysis—are presented in a format designed to appeal to the prereader. Lollipop Logic employs visual and pictorial clues to introduce and reinforce high-powered thinking. This one-of-kind tool gives wings to prereaders and nonreaders. This unique book introduces complex thinking skills without the fetters of lexical meaning.
Computers dominate the world we live in, and this book describes how we got here. The Computer: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the World[/i]covers topics from early efforts at mathematical computation back in ancient times, such as the abacus and the Antikythera device, through Babbage’s Difference Engine and the Hollerith Tabulating Machines of the 19th century, to the eventual invention of the modern computer during World War II and its aftermath.
